Releasesby GlyphManage app building agent context
Live on cloud • All plans Public beta Organization admins can now add shared building context that applies to all apps built with the new app builder . Building context is applied as custom instructions in the system prompt when the user makes any changes via prompting in the Chat tab, similar to the way AGENTS.md files work.
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Workspace sharing in Declarative Native Apps (Public Preview)
Workspace sharing is now available in public preview for Declarative Native Apps. Providers can share a whole directory of files and folders by declaring a workspace in the application package manifest. Consumers get a read-only workspace when they install the app, and can browse the folder structure and open the files.
Gateway Monitoring & A/B Testing (General availability)
Gateway Monitoring & A/B Testing is now generally available. Use gateway model monitors to track drift and performance for inference services behind a Snowflake Gateway, compare baseline and challenger services during live traffic splits, and evaluate results in Snowsight or with SQL. For more information, see Gateway monitoring & A/B testing .
Multi-party Approval (General availability)
Multi-party Approval (MPA) is now generally available. When a Multi-party Approval policy is attached to your account, MPA enforces a mandatory second-person (“four-eyes”) verification step for critical account operations. A Multi-party Approval policy defines which operations require approval and who can approve them.
Unity Gateway is now generally available
Unity Gateway is now generally available. Unity Gateway is the Databricks governance solution for enterprise AI, part of Unity Catalog. With Unity Gateway you can: Control which AI services teams can use. Route and manage AI traffic across providers. Govern MCP servers to control access and costs. Monitor usage, cost, access, and lineage from one place.
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available
Sharing Delta tables with Iceberg reads enabled is now generally available. See Delta Lake feature support matrix .
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors and column mapping is now generally available
Sharing Delta tables with deletion vectors or column mapping enabled is now generally available. See Add tables with deletion vectors or column mapping to a share .
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Retool 4.35 Edge for self-hosted instances
Retool 4.35 is now available on the Edge release channel for self-hosted organizations.
Self-hosted Retool 4.0 and 3.334 stable updates
The following patches are now available on the Stable release channel: Retool 4.0.9 Retool 3.334.27 Update your Retool instance to apply the latest bug fixes and security patches.
Admin onboarding hub now available in the Settings Overview page
Live on cloud • Enterprise 4.27.0 Edge • Enterprise Admins on the Enterprise plan can now complete each step in the Get started section of the Overview page using guided step-by-step wizards instead of navigating through separate Settings pages to complete configuration.
BYOK AI token management
Live on cloud Self-hosted version 4.35.0 and later Retool introduced several features to help Enterprise organizations manage AI token spend when using their own API key for AI resources. Use the new Get BYOK AI token usage endpoint to measure the number of tokens consumed for each AI resource that uses your own key .
Gmail resource integration available for self-hosted instances
Self-hosted version 4.31.0 and later Self-hosted Retool instances can now connect to Gmail as a resource to read, send, and manage email using the Gmail API. Self-hosted instances authenticate using your own Google Cloud OAuth client, so this integration is available now without waiting on Google's app-verification process for Retool's shared OAuth client.
Multiple threads per branch in the app builder
Live on cloud • All plans Public beta 4.35.0 Edge • All plans Public beta The app builder now supports multiple chat conversations (threads) working on the same branch rather than a single thread per branch. A thread is a single chat conversation with the agent in the Chat tab. Threads are intended to help you keep your work organized by task or theme.
Gemini 3.6 Flash available in Retool
Live on cloud Gemini 3.6 Flash is now available to cloud organizations through Google. It can be used with AI resource queries when you connect Google with your own API key . Support for self-hosted Retool is coming in an upcoming release.
Claude Opus 5 available in Retool
Live on cloud Claude Opus 5 is now available to cloud organizations through Anthropic. It can be used with AI resource queries , with Retool Agents , and in Assist . Opus 5 requires you to bring your own key for AI resource queries and Assist; Retool Agents can use Opus 5 with a Retool-managed key.